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白金汉宫奢华王室款待曝光(组图)
2015-07-29 10:16
来源:沪江
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Entertaining at Buckingham Palace is never going to be a simple affair.
在白金汉宫内设宴从来就不是一件易事。
Each and every state banquet takes ten days to prepare for and requires 1,700 pieces of mismatched baroque, Rocco and neo-classic cutlery to be placed at each of the 170 table settings precisely 46cm apart.
每场国宴都需要耗费十天来准备,并且要求1700件交错搭配的餐具——巴洛克风格、洛可可风格以及新古典风格——以相隔精确到46厘米的距离配置在170张桌子上。
Crockery is taken from King George IV’s 4,000-piece Grand Service (which takes a team of eight three weeks to unpack and repack) and 1,104 glasses - six for each guest to contain water, champagnefor the toast, red wine, white wine, champagne or sweet wine and port - must be laid on the pristine 175-foot dining table.
餐具是来自国王乔治四世的4000件“大服务”(拆装重组需要耗费一个8人小组3天的时间),而1104件玻璃杯必须被放置在高175英尺的古典餐桌上——每位宾客配有6个玻璃杯,分别盛放水、祝酒时喝的香槟、红葡萄酒、白葡萄酒、香槟或者甜葡萄酒以及波特酒。